Wirken Photography Blog

Wedding date: 05.09.08
Ceremony and Reception: La Quinta Resort and Club 
Location: Palm Springs, CA

 My husband Mark and I had the pleasure of traveling out to the Mosimann family’s vacation spot, La Quinta, CA (just east of Palm Springs), to photograph Lauren and Taylor’s wedding.  Honestly, it hardly felt like work.  We were treated like friends and honored guests. […]

The one nice thing about getting wonderful wedding clients is that they usually come along with wonderful families. This is Sophie. Her brother Ned is a groom of ours and she came to us via him. Although Tyler would have met Sophie a few weeks later at her brother’s wedding it was kind of cool […]

So, this is 10 year old Michael. Michael’s Mom had wanted a portrait of him taken for his first holy communion. However she did not want this image of Michael to look like what you would assume a first holy communion portrait to look like. Although we took tons of great images for this […]

This is a wonderful couple that we had the pleasure of meeting through a referral. Believe it or not, they live about 4 hours from KC, they are already married and really wanted more from their wedding photography. Some friends of theirs from KC that had a family portrait done, recommended Tyler and a wonderful […]

We had the pleasure of visiting some of our best friends in the last few weeks and hanging out with them and their two awesome kids. For years we had taken images of their son Drew as he has changed and grown over the years. This time, it was Lauren’s turn. Here are a few […]

Wedding Date: 05.03.08
Church: Atonement Lutheran Church
Reception: Hallbrook Country Club
Flowers: Studio Dan Meiners

My whole relationship with Lauren and Daniel has been serendipitous.  I was originally unavailable for their wedding day, but I was able to make it work- thank goodness!  From our time together shooting engagement pictures, to every meeting in between, they have just been so sweet- calm […]

Diana and Jason were married in March, but for various reasons, we had agreed to postpone their engagement session until after the wedding.  It was actually really fun to see them again, since I usually hate saying “so long” after all the wedding stuff is over.  take a look…     

Visual storytelling is what I do.
I get to know couples before their wedding to totally understand them, study them, and ask questions to know as much as I can about them.
Then, on the big day, I search relentlessly for those tiny little moments that in the end come together to be not only the story […]

Ginger wanted to record her body in this beautiful state.  Isn’t she lovely?